I know this is off topic but: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html from what I can see in the installed files, unlike picasa(which use wine and I can't get it to run on my ubuntu 5.04 hoary, help!) this is a *native* port! It even runs fine on my now aged ubuntu hoary! Run very smoothly Hurray this give non-gamers like me some reward on getting the 3D working! Jiang